Roman Brandstaetter

Agnieszka Ba³ut Class II f III Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Tarnów, Poland

On 3rd of November 2006 classes IIg and IIh from a Polish partner school organised another activity connected with Socrates Comenius Project.
The students prepared an academy about Roman Brandstaetter as a celebration of his 100th birth anniversary.
Roman Brandstaetter was a famous Polish-Jewish writer and a poet who was born in Tarnów, and lived near our school. After World War II had broken out he emigrated to Palestine where he had his first writing debut. His works are devoted to religious, moral and historical themes. The academy was attended by students and teachers of our school who were very eager to see the performance. We were delighted to listen to some classical music played by the young pianist and two violinists - students from our school. The music corresponded very well with the theme of the meeting. During the academy students read some information about the writer's biography and others recited his poems. It was accompanied by classical music played in the background. Thanks to the meeting students could become more familiar with poetry by Roman Brandstaetter and hear about various kinds of borders existing between people, nations and his literary works.